Vol. 11, No. 493, Saturday, 3.2.2007
“Stung Treng: On 2 January 2007, H.E. Bun Rany Hun Sen led a senior delegation of leaders’ wives to visit military chiefs, deputy military chiefs, and soldiers’ families in the Military Region 1, Battalion 32, based in Reacheanukoul Village, Stung Treng Commune, Stung Treng.
“Major General Huot Chheang, the Commander of Military Region 1, expressed deep thanks to H.E. Bun Rany and expressed nostalgia for her by saying that it has been more than 20 years that military chiefs, deputy military chiefs, solders, and their families have not seen her face to face, but they have seen her only on newspapers and on television.
“The Commander of Military Region 1 informed H.E. Bun Rany Hun Sen about the general situation of the Military Region 1.
“Speaking to the military chiefs, deputy military chiefs, soldiers, and their families, H.E. Bun Rany Hun Sen conveyed the regards sent by Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen to the military chiefs, deputy military chiefs, soldiers, and their families in all the present units and the units of the joint border protection police who are doing a great task to defend the nation and the people.
“She went on to say that Cambodia is completely peaceful, but the task of the military chiefs, deputy military chiefs, and soldiers still continues: to defend the nation and to develop their units, their own living standards, and beyond that to help the people and the communities. This is also the regular effort of the military chiefs, deputy military chiefs, and soldiers to strengthen their units. She continued, ‘I am very happy to see that the soldiers and their families have appropriate living standards, peace, and happiness. However, I would like you, the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces, the Military Police, and the police in general to sustain your own happiness as well as that of your families by being free from AIDS. We survived the war, we should not have to die from AIDS. It would be a big sorrow if we died from AIDS. Therefore, we have to prevent this epidemic, and also the prejudice against AIDS carriers and AIDS patients.’
“H.E. Bun Rany Hun Sen mentioned requests and provided recommendations to change the outer regions of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces to be agricultural development areas.
“During the trip to visit the Military Region 1, H.E. Bun Rany Hun Sen provided gifts of Riel 10,000,000 [approx. US$2,450] to the monks in Wat Khatteyaram called Wat Kandal, and awarded medals to 54 military chiefs.
“After that H.E. Bun Rany Hun Sen and the wives of other leaders distributed gifts to more than 200 soldiers’ families, representing 800 soldiers’ families.
“She also distributed many gifts such as generators, television sets, food, and household supplies, military trucks, ambulances, simple agricultural machinery [‘mechanical oxen’], cement, zinc sheets, nails, husked rice, instant noodles, and medicines to the commander, the deputy commanders of the Military Region 1, and to the subordinate units.” Rasmei Kampuchea, Vol.15, #4202, 3.2.2007
Newspapers Appearing on the Newsstand:
Saturday, 3 February 2007
Chakraval, Vol.15, #2646, 3.2.2007
- Parents React against School Directors Who Order Students [of Grade 9] to Register for New Birth Certificates Which Cost Riel 20,000 to Riel 40,000 [US$5 to US$10]
Kampuchea Thmey, Vol.6, #1260, 3.2.2007
- Samdech Euv [Father King]: Royal Family Members Should Stop Entering Politics
- Cambodia and the Republic of Korea Create Joint Art Performances [Chaktomuk Theater, 1 February]
- Poor Woman Carrying Her Little Child Falls Down in Street because of Starvation [Tuol Kork, Phnom Penh]
Koh Santepheap, Vol.40, #5937, 3-4.2.2007
- Man Rapes His Two [underage] Daughters [he is arrested – Aek Phnom, Battambang]
- 52 Houses Burn in Boeng Salang [Tuol Kork, Phnom Penh]
- In One Month, 144 People Die from Dengue Fever in Indonesia
Rasmei Kampuchea, Vol.15, #4202, 3.2.2007
- H.E. Bun Rany Hun Sen Visits Soldiers and Their Families in Stung Treng
- Samdech Euv [Father King] Supports the Idea for Royal Family to Stay out of Politics
- Reporters Without Borders Releases Report on Press Freedom in Cambodia [report says insult was no longer treated as crime immediately after director of Sambok Khmum Radio was released]
- Audit Report of Asian Development Bank Suspects that There Is Corruption in [rural] Development Projects of More Than $27 Million [in northwestern Cambodia]
- Vietnamese President Will Visit Cambodia in Late February
Samleng Yuvachun Khmer, Vol.14, #2960, 3.2.2007
- Donors Increasingly Lose Belief in Cambodia Because Corruption Gets More and More Serious
- Thun Saray [director of Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association] Says Cambodian People’s Party Holds Power Alone, Making Space of Democracy Smaller
Sralanh Khmer, Vol.3, #322, 3.2.2007
- Sam Rainsy Party Plans to Write to Japanese Government about Corruption in Kompong Cham [some village and commune chiefs extort money from Khmer Rouge victim families in Batheay who receive gifts from Handa Foundation]
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